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Efficient PubMed Navigation Tutorial for Researchers

Learn how to effectively navigate PubMed using the Send To feature for saving, ordering, and emailing citations. This tutorial covers file downloads, clipboard use, and accessing full-text articles from the HINARI Journals Collection A-Z list. Discover how to utilize the Clipboard, Email, and Single Citation Matcher options for managing citations efficiently. Gain insight into PubMed training resources for a better research experience.

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Efficient PubMed Navigation Tutorial for Researchers

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  1. From the Send To drop down menu, we will be able to select the File, Collections, Order, Clipboard, E-mail and other options.

  2. You must place check marks in the boxes to the left of the citations that you wish to send toFile, Collections, Order, Clipboard and E-mail options. If you do not place check marks in the boxes, the entire search will be sent to the option you choose.

  3. From the Send To drop down menu, we will click on File, with the Abstract andRecently Added options. This will be a document to be downloaded from your Search. Note how PubMed lists the # of citations you have checked.

  4. The pubmed_results has displayed as a .txt file at the bottom of this web browser.We will use Notepad to display the file. Note: This screen is displayed using Google Chrome. In other web browsers, the save files may be displayed in different places.

  5. We now view the text from a downloaded .txt file in Notepad. You can save this file to the C:/ drive or a flash drive or a CD-Rom. Once saved, you can print the document. Note: these are the citations of the articles. Now you can go to the HINARI Journals Collection A-Z list to access the full-text articles.

  6. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected to E-mail a file, with the AbstractandRelevance options. This will be a document to be sent to the e-mail address you entered as the recipient.

  7. In the above message, PubMed has noted that an E-mail has been sent to the e-mail address you entered as the recipient.

  8. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected to send a citations to the Clipboardoption. Note that 500 (the maximum) will be sent to the Clipboard since we did not check any specific articles’ boxes.

  9. ` A green message that 500 Item were added to the Clipboard is displayed. Also note the number of items that have been sent to the Clipboard .

  10. To remove items from the Clipboard, click on Clipboard. The PubMed search will re-appear and, using the green hypertext links, you can Remove all items orRemove from clipboard individual citations. In this case, we will Remove all items.

  11. The green check box/ message notes that 500 items were deleted from the Clipboard.

  12. Single Citation Maker We will look at the Single Citation Matcher option.

  13. In the Single Citation Matcher, we have entered HINARI in the Title words boxand clicked on Search.

  14. Using these search terms in the Single Citation Matcher has resulted in 10 citation.

  15. Returning to the initial PubMed page, we briefly will discuss the various training resources listed in the Using PubMed box. Note that the resources range from a Quick Start Guide to FAQs and numerous PubMed Tutorials. Remember that these resources are for general PubMed, not PubMed/HINARI.

  16. This is the end of the HINARI Basic Course Module 4 There is a workbook to accompany this part of the module. It will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this module. Updated 2014 07

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